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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There seems to be a big divide on this thread between parents who have their kids doing structured homework/studying/worksheets/assignments (or want them to be doing this) and parents who lean more towards contextual learning via whatever the child or family happens to be doing or discussing (roadtrips, museums, cooking, board games, shopping, budgeting, task planning, current events etc.)

I'm not sure there's a right way and a wrong way, though I personally have a strong preference for one over the other.  But that probably has more to do with my personality and the personality of my DC than anything else.

I also wonder whether the parental opinions about this differ depending on how the child is doing at school.  Are the parents who do structured homework in the summer concerned that their children would otherwise be below grade level or falling behind?

Same question on this idea of the "average" child losing 2.5 months of learning progress over the summer.  I am absolutely sure this is not the case for my DC, even though there are no structured homework assignments.  [/quote]

I'm the PP with  rising 3rd grader on the first page of this thread, where my son is doing 10 minutes 4-5 days a week, plus daily reading. I take the summer to help him work on some deficits because there is NO time during the school year to focus on stuff that's challenging for him, where he'd benefit from some extra time and attention.  Maybe if I SAH but I don't. We play together after dinner and I reserve one hour of study/read time after that during the school year. He needs free play daily, so that's important to me during school.

So I use summer to catch up and reinforce, not get ahead. I will teach times tables through 6, which technically is getting ahead, but I know from experience this is a weak area for him and I'm saving some weeknight time during school by doing it now.

Daily reading has been a requirement from Day 1 and that includes my reading to him at younger ages. Now it's mostly him reading although I still reAd to him some. [/quote]

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